3/2/2004
Complete Results
PITTSBURGH, Pa. ? Behind two second-place finishes by sophomore Katie Amaro (Shreveport, La./ Loyola Prep), one of which eclipsed her own school record in the 500yd freestyle, the Georgetown women's swimming and diving team placed tenth out of 29 teams last weekend at the ECAC Championships. The women scored 121 points to capture tenth, while the men tallied 29 points to place 21st.
Amaro timed 5:03.36 in the 500yd free to shatter her previous school record of 5:03.88. The mark earned Amaro second place and 17 points in the team scoring. Amaro also earned the silver in the 200yd freestyle (1:54.86), and scored points individually in the 100yd freestyle (54.45) and additionally as a member of the 200yd freestyle relay (1:42.48), 200yd medley relay (4:09.72), 800yd freestyle relay (7:57.24) and 400 yd freestyle relay (3:42.32). The 800yd freestyle relay team placed ninth, 400yd freestyle relay team placed 11th and the 200yd freestyle and 200yd medley relay teams placed 14th.
Other solid individual performances on the women?s side came from senior Colleen Newman (Staten Island, N.Y./ Notre Dame) in the 1650yd freestyle (17:53.86), freshman Mary Mason (Chicago, Ill./ St. Ignatius) in the 200yd individual medley (2:13.98) and 200yd backstroke (2:14.14), freshman McKay Elliott (Gaithersburg, Md./ Georgetown Visitation) in the 50yd freestyle (25.27), sophomore Corrine Rhodes (Doylestown, Pa./ Central Bucks) and freshman Laura Sytnyk (Nutley, NJ/Mount St. Dominic) in the 400yd individual medley, and Laura Sytnyk in the 200yd butterfly (2:14.15). Sophomore Cori Raffaelli (Oxnard, Calif./ Ventura College) also posted a strong 13th place finish in the 1650yd freestyle (18:01.60) behind Newman.
Continuing the Hoyas? success in the distance races, the men received a standout effort from sophomore Jon Hayden (Woodbridge, Va./ Osbourn Park) in the 1650 yd freestyle. Hayden timed 16:46.50 for 16th place, and also swam on the men?s highest-finishing relay of the meet, the 800yd freestyle relay, which finished 11th in 7:11.57. The men?s 400yd freestyle relay, 200yd freestyle relay and 200 yd medley relay all also earned points for the Hoyas at the meet.
The ECAC Championship wrapped up a productive season for the Hoyas, in which the men won the Northeast Conference Championship, where the women placed second, and both teams broke a multitude of school records.
